that school is a private school. >> it's not necessarily bad for sharpstown high school? it doesn't affect your... >> it doesn't affect our number, but it affects my morals. >> we have to have something to prove where they are. if i can't prove any of that, that they're in an educational setting or they've got their degree, they're a dropout in texas. only acceptable excuse you can use is to say, "i'm going back to my home country," and then we don't require any proof. just a statement. >> is that one easy to abuse, then? >> probably, but i don't think it's abused as much as what you think. >> i was supposedly in mexico. i dropped out for a whole semester and i didn't have to prove nothing, you know. they were just like okay, he's going to mexico, that's it. and that was it. like, i was gone. like, supposedly, i was gone. >> yeah, it showed that he left and went home to mexico a couple of times and then he came back to the states to go ahead and finish his education. >> so you were never gonna go to mexico? >> no. i don't even plan on going there. i don't plan on going to